roundhouse

How To Use roundhouse In A Sentence

• Each time it merely turned an engine around or coaled and watered it, such as when a yard engine came in for a crew change, the roundhouse was credited with a half-dispatch.
• Both are limited to essentially one fighting move, a roundhouse punch, which makes for very repetitive and dull action sequences.
• Chavasse turned sideways, riding most of the force, and at the same moment fell to one side and delivered a roundhouse kick to the groin. THE KEYS OF HELL
• Discovering the Doors long after Jim Morrison's death and long before the internet, there was a deep mystery about them – you would find shards of information in music encyclopedias, come across the odd newspaper or magazine article, and once, amazingly, ITV reshowed a documentary from 1968 of the Doors live at London's Roundhouse, juxtaposed with scenes of student revolution. Pure poetry: why Jim Morrison's way with words still lights my fire
• Then he throws a heavy, slow roundhouse punch at my face.
• All three died soon after of mysterious roundhouse-kick related injuries.
• The weatherboarded top was originally supported by the timber trestle, which has since been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
• I was blocking high, to stop the roundhouse, and the sweep caught me totally off guard.
• She was rough-handled by an arresting officer, held in two different jails for a total of 14 hours, being released onto the mean streets of Philly, locked out of the "roundhouse" police station, in the dark, at 5 AM without even the opportunity to first turn on her cell phone to call for a ride home. OpEdNews Reporter Arrested While Photographing Protest
• A combination consisting of a king and a queen of each suit is sometimes known as a roundhouse.